You can navigate your webtext by using the screen reader commands below. Our products include WCAG 2.2 AA compliant code to support simple and consistent navigation across assistive technologies.
These navigation commands work when your screen reader is in scan mode or a similar setting. Each command moves through the page in a set order. To move backward through that order, add Shift to the command.
Region landmarks
Each page you navigate will have defined region landmarks that contain important parts of the page:
Banner: section that contains important controls such as the Table of Contents, Tools Menu, and search bar
Main: section that contains all of the text, questions, and other learning materials
Footer: section that contains all footnotes for a page as well as the Next and Back buttons
You can navigate between these landmarks using the following commands in scan mode:
JAWS: R
NVDA: D
Narrator: D
VoiceOver: Command-U to open the rotor. Then hold VO and press the Left or Right Arrow keys until you find the landmark, then VO-Down Arrow to expand the list.
Page elements
You can navigate the page on a more granular level using element-specific hot keys. These allow you to navigate through the page by specific element types.
JAWS, NVDA, and Narrator
B: move through button elements
H: move through headings
T: move through tables
U: move through unvisited links
V: move through visited links
VoiceOver
VO-Command-T: move through tables
VO-Command-H: move through headings
VO-Command-L: move through any links
Notes
When you select a portion of text, a toolbar will appear with options to highlight the text or add a note. The shortcuts below move focus to the toolbar or jump directly to the top note on the page.
For more on taking notes, visit our article, How do I highlight and take notes?
Windows
Alt+W: move focus to the toolbar
Alt+M: jump to the top note on the page
Mac
Control-W: move focus to the toolbar
Control-M: jump to the top note on the page
VoiceOver
To use VoiceOver shortcuts while taking notes, first make sure that Quick Nav is turned off.
VO-Control-Q (Control-Option-Q): turn Quick Nav on or off
Once Quick Nav is off, you can use the following shortcuts:
Option-Left/Right Arrow: move the cursor word by word to the text you want to highlight
Option-Shift-Right Arrow: highlight by word
Shift-Right Arrow: select text by character
Control-W: move focus to note toolbar
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